About the podcast

FIRSTHAND is a storytelling podcast dedicated to real accounts of terrifying, unsettling, and unexplained experiences — told directly by the people who lived them.

From paranormal encounters and strange experiences deep in the woods, to disturbing run-ins with dangerous people, unexplained sightings, near-death experiences, and moments that still don’t make sense years later, every story shared on the show comes from firsthand experience.

Minimal narration.
No dramatized retellings.
Just real people telling the stories they can’t forget.

Every episode explores the fear, confusion, and lasting impact these experiences left behind — because fear sounds different FIRSTHAND.

If you have a story you’ve never been able to explain, we want to hear it.